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The Routledge History of Medieval Magic.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Histories SerDescription: 1 online resource (569 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781317042761
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Routledge History of Medieval MagicDDC classification:
  • 133.430940902
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Conceptualizing magic -- 1 Rethinking how to define magic -- 2 For magic: Against method -- 3 A discourse historical approach towards medieval learned magic -- 4 The concept of magic -- 5 Responses -- PART II: Languages and dissemination -- 6 Arabic magic: The impetus for translating texts and their reception -- 7 The Latin encounter with Hebrew magic: Problems and approaches -- 8 Magic in Romance languages -- 9 Central and Eastern Europe -- 10 Magic in Celtic lands -- 11 Scandinavia -- PART III: Key genres and figures -- 12 From Hermetic magic to the magic of marvels -- 13 The notion of properties: Tensions between Scientia and Ars in medieval natural philosophy and magic -- 14 Solomonic magic -- 15 Necromancy -- 16 John of Morigny -- 17 Cecco d'Ascoli and Antonio da Montolmo: The building of a "nigromantical" cosmology and the birth of the author-magician -- 18 Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa��sacre��magice: Magic as the promotion of God's Kingship -- 19 Jerome Torrella and "Astrological Images" -- 20 Peter of Zealand -- PART IV: Themes (magic and���) -- 21 Magic and natural philosophy -- 22 Medicine and magic -- 23 Illusion -- 24 Magic at court -- 25 Magic and gender -- 26 Magic in literature: Romance transformations -- 27 Music -- 28 Magic and archaeology: Ritual residues and "odd" deposits -- 29 The visual culture of magic in the Middle ages -- 30 Medieval magical figures: Between image and text -- PART V: Anti-magical discourse in the later Middle Ages -- 31 Scholasticism and high medieval opposition to magic -- 32 Pastoral literature and preaching -- 33 Superstition and sorcery -- 34 Witchcraft.
35 Epilogue: Cosmology and magic - The angel of Mars in the Libro de astromagia -- Further reading -- Index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Conceptualizing magic -- 1 Rethinking how to define magic -- 2 For magic: Against method -- 3 A discourse historical approach towards medieval learned magic -- 4 The concept of magic -- 5 Responses -- PART II: Languages and dissemination -- 6 Arabic magic: The impetus for translating texts and their reception -- 7 The Latin encounter with Hebrew magic: Problems and approaches -- 8 Magic in Romance languages -- 9 Central and Eastern Europe -- 10 Magic in Celtic lands -- 11 Scandinavia -- PART III: Key genres and figures -- 12 From Hermetic magic to the magic of marvels -- 13 The notion of properties: Tensions between Scientia and Ars in medieval natural philosophy and magic -- 14 Solomonic magic -- 15 Necromancy -- 16 John of Morigny -- 17 Cecco d'Ascoli and Antonio da Montolmo: The building of a "nigromantical" cosmology and the birth of the author-magician -- 18 Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa��sacre��magice: Magic as the promotion of God's Kingship -- 19 Jerome Torrella and "Astrological Images" -- 20 Peter of Zealand -- PART IV: Themes (magic and���) -- 21 Magic and natural philosophy -- 22 Medicine and magic -- 23 Illusion -- 24 Magic at court -- 25 Magic and gender -- 26 Magic in literature: Romance transformations -- 27 Music -- 28 Magic and archaeology: Ritual residues and "odd" deposits -- 29 The visual culture of magic in the Middle ages -- 30 Medieval magical figures: Between image and text -- PART V: Anti-magical discourse in the later Middle Ages -- 31 Scholasticism and high medieval opposition to magic -- 32 Pastoral literature and preaching -- 33 Superstition and sorcery -- 34 Witchcraft.

35 Epilogue: Cosmology and magic - The angel of Mars in the Libro de astromagia -- Further reading -- Index.

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